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Cake day: April 23rd, 2024

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  • Running a media server with bulk storage from an external HDD is just a terrible experience and recipe for issues, and doesn’t give a nice experience with a full library to select from at a whim anywhere in the world (like what streaming provides). Also, depending on library size, not even possible.

    I have ~20tb of media on my server, which isn’t even that much, no chance that’ll run well in that configure you mention. It’s by no means a beefy server either, it’s a small ITX mobo in a case with a shitload of HDD bays.






  • Even Prusa’s newest printer, the core one, is no where close to BL printers of last year in terms of performance and print quality, despite costing nearly twice as much. BL is ahead of all it’s competitors in both the hobbyist and pro-sumer market in both performance and UX, it really sucks that there isn’t something to fill that market now that they’ve pulled this crap. I’m not sure what parts he couldn’t get, but the few I know that do have BL printers, only one has had to replace a part and it was no issue getting it from BL whatsoever.





  • What keeps me away from streaming site is that I’m confused about how the sustain themselves. Aren’t the costs giganormous to constantly be streaming stuff around?

    I think they’re just doing it the same way you do TBH, they just force sequential download of a torrent and allow their users to watch as it downloads as a normal torrent, but then auto-deletes content as it goes as well. That way they don’t need to have a massive back end to handle the streaming since it’s done like regular P2P torrenting and handled entirely in the client side.


  • I fail to see the useful benefit of this in a home printing environment TBH. It’s a cool gimmick, and I remember seeing it long ago in the voron discord when they first developed it on a v2.4(or was it a trident? I can’t remember…), but I don’t really see what use it has for hobbyist printing.

    Does anyone need consecutive unmonitored batch printing of several plates full at home? It seems much more like something you’d want in a production/print farm environment where it can streamline mass production.



  • why not download a copy?

    I mean, keeping copies is actually pretty stupid and wasteful for most people. Most only watch things once but still keep the copy around taking up space for no good reason other than because they can. Why waste storage on things you don’t really have a need for? That’s just hoarding…

    That said, I’m still the type of person who keeps things around just in case I want to watch it again…but if I’m being honest, I probably don’t need to store ~80% of my library though.








  • Having to haul a trailer of some sort would be really annoying for long road trips because of the speed limits towing entails. Not to mention the nightmare it is to find parking with a trailer, and even worse charging that accommodates room for a trailer.

    I’ve been road tripping around Europe a few times in my EV, and the car is always done charging before the kids are done on the toilet and we have restocked snacks/coffee/gotten an ice cream. Having a break for every ~2-3h of driving is also extremely nice I found, you arrive much less trashed. It’s actually only annoying when you stop to eat lunch/dinner, because you have to move the car before you’re done eating because it’s finished charging.